Day 10 blog entry.
Wednesday 18 May 2022: Our Amazing Sun
We ran our solar observing drop-in session today. Lots of visitors, young and old. Lots of great questions.
We used the Meade 10-inch SCT in the Waasa Debaabing observatory with a Kendrick full-spectrum white light visual solar filter. Great view of the Sun.
Captured with a Canon 40D at 11:04 AM, ISO 100, 1/500th of a second. The large group at the top is the Active Region 3014. The two smaller spots below is AR 3015. Bottom-right is AR 3010 and finally bottom-south is region 3016.
Out of frame I saw Active Region 3007.
Busy place. Hopefully we’re get some aurora soon…
Two young lads helped do some safe solar projection with some old (small) binoculars. Science!
Why can I never remember how long it takes the Sun to rotate?!
It’s around 27 days.
My favourite question was: Why is the Sun not yellow?
The Astronomer-In-Residence program is coordinated by the Allan I Carswell Observatory (AICO) at York University with the Killarney Provincial Park Observatory (KPPO).
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